• Down in front of Casey's old brown wooden stoop
    On a summer's evening we formed a merry group
    Boys and girls together we would sing and waltz
    While Tony played the organ on the sidewalks of New York

    East Side, West Side, all around the town
    The tots sang "ring-a-rosie," "London Bridge is falling down"
    Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O'Rourke
    Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York

    That's where Johnny Casey, little Jimmy Crowe
    Jakey Krause, the baker, who always had the dough
    Pretty Nellie Shannon with a dude as light as cork
    She first picked up the waltz step on the sidewalks of New York

    Things have changed since those times, some are up in "G"
    Others they are wand'rers but they all feel just like me
    They'd part with all they've got, could they once more walk
    With their best girl and have a twirl on the sidewalks of New York